The phrase "tedious plot" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a storyline in a book, movie, or play that is overly long, boring, or lacking in excitement.
Example: "The film received mixed reviews, with many critics pointing out its tedious plot that failed to engage the audience."
Alternatives: "boring storyline" or "dull narrative."
Rather, Gene D. Phillips has written loose film criticism built around tedious plot summaries and anecdotes.
That, in a nutshell, is "sexposition": the art of outlining all that tedious plot against a background of no-holds-barred sex.
It would be lovely to report that this peerless festival has somehow come up with a transformative version that transcends the play's tedious plot devices.
I had had it with the High Sparrow a religious hard-liner with a vise grip on power, smugly claiming to be a man of the people and I had had it with that whole tedious plot.
In any case, it seems that right-wing nuts aren't the only ones who believe the Census is all a plot... a slow-moving, bureaucratic, cumbersome, and tedious plot, but a dastardly scheme nonetheless.
Beyond its abundant charms, "Un Lun Dun" never misses an opportunity to undermine the tiresome plot devices and tedious moralizing of traditional fantasy.
Although ANN praised the animators who "put all the love they could into the fight", it criticized the slow plot pacing that led up to the fight, and the fight's tedious structure.
All your hopes that this series would end without too much of that tedious mole plot: dead dead dead dead dead.
He sums up their feelings in Beatrice and Virgil: "The novel was tedious, the plot feeble, the characters unconvincing, their fate uninteresting, the point lost; the essay was flimsy, lacking in substance, poorly argued, poorly written.
Rather than build every scene around this salty ménage-à-codger, he shuttles Martha off to the margins while he fusses with a tedious arson plot and a ludicrous sea rescue.
Boyle turns this potentially tedious and moralistic plot into a generation-spanning thriller that includes shipwrecks, wildlife attacks, and an ill-fated rescue mission.
